Neighborhood Project Inspirations

Look through the following links to begin thinking about what the story of you and your neighborhood might be.

Newfound Colors for a Portrait of New York

Readers’ Photos: Burning, but Breathing

Nostrand Park - Oral History Project 

Old New York in Colour

 What Makes Cities Live

 

 

Links from Eric McClure

Gowanus Canal sewage

Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group Facebook page

Atlantic Yards "affordable" housing

Atlantic Yards "affordable housing 2

Some good Coney Island info

More Coney Island Links

http://nymag.com/nymetro/realestate/features/14498/

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP

http://www.nycfuture.org/content/articles/article_view.cfm?article_id=1228

http://kineticcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/07/coney-islands-futureprognosis-negative.html

http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-25/news/coney-island-s-grand-past-and-grim-future/

Links to Atlantic Yards Research Sites

Pro AYP:
Barclays Center
City Room Blog
Crains NY
ACORN Article
BUILD Brooklyn

Anit AYP:
Atlantic Yards Report
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
No Land Grab
NY1 Interviews Daniel Goldstein
Brownstoner Blog
ACORN Ratner Conspiracy

Coney Island Research Links

Check out these links to research Coney Island:

http://www.westland.net/coneyisland/

http://www.coneyisland.com/

http://www.coneyislandhistory.org/

http://www.saveconeyisland.net/

http://www.thecidc.org

Gowanus Independent Research Links

Here is a link to the NY Times blog that posted Gowanus photos. Choose your favorites!

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/the-gowanus-in-all-its-gunky-glory/?scp=2&sq=Gowanus&st=cse

Here are a few other sites to check out:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/nyregion/07muse.html?_r=1&scp=77&sq=Park+Slope&st=nyt

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/essay-3/?ref=nyregion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5mRDOwMyxw

Independent Internet Research Sites

Below are a number of internet sites showing gentrification in Brooklyn and its effects. View the sites one at a time. Look at all photographs and read all captions. After you have viewed a site, summarize what the photographer was trying to show about gentrification in Brooklyn.

Williamsburg Today
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/realestate/21livi.html

Greenpoint in the 1980's
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/03/15/nyregion/thecity/15-thecity-arti_12.html

Greenpoint Today
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/13/nyregion/13-LOCALSTOPS_12.html

Bed-Stuy moves ahead
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/25/nyregion/20090926STORES_11.html

Brooklyn storefronts
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/brooklyn-storefronts-as-metaphor-for-a-changing-borough/